Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-10-18


b W.LUTREIL-
LEVI McLAUGHLN.
Yue Oonnissioper LIST District.
O. PTTTMAE.
GDowICK COUNTY REPUBLICANS
Il Couple of Eagle Parallels and Paral
lels and Democratic Gall.
And there was certain farmer living ir
ahe region round about Cowskin who wa.
tho proud proprietor Of pen Of the finest
1xed porkers In ali those parts. These hogs
we're 90 fine, frifky and fat that theil
weight bro Ike down the fence Of their IN
closure and they bolted. A neighbor sd
vised This farmer that the only way to &c,
even with such lot Of thoroughbreds was
10 burn up their corn and trade them of
for kind that needed no fencing. breed
hat lived on wind and husks and ran
Wild. The farmer, however, did not fol-
low this advice. He simply gathered up
his scattered stock and then proceeded to
make his fence higher, stronger and tighter.
And again there was a certain business
man In Wichita whose mother in-la was
ambitious to be appointed on the Metro
poli,sn police. She was ''rizen" and he
hated her with holy hatred. A neigh
Dor advised him also and II was to this
effect: That the only way he could
get even with his enemy was to kick her
daughter, his own wife, out upon cold
world. The business man did no such
Thing. He kicked his motber-inlaw out
instead and proceeded to love bis wife
harder than ever.
The Republican party has been srieved,
not TO say apgered, to some extent, over
The blunders Of pig-headed managers and
feather-headed servants, but matter which
to many had seemed serious has been
tar, ed into broad burlesque by just such
advice as Is found In the parallels, given by
The Democratic party. who have been pre-
tending that Republicans ought to jump
from the frying pan into the fire.
The plans of politicians 60 amiss, their
ambitions fall still born, often, but princi-
ple lives on, lives forever. The Democratic |
party, too, lives on, but lives on only to
blunder. From him who now goes circus
ing around the country making show OF
himself down to the old owls here In |
Sedgwick county who. with preteDce to
seriousness. stand up In the light Of day
advising Republicans to forswear their
principles and to trade off their thorough
1reds for scrubs.
The democrats Of this community have
been making themselves the laughing
stock of the whole county by telling Re
publicans that the only sure way to Repub-
Ncan success In the future Is for the Repub-
hcan. party to do the grand Hari Kari act
commit suicide.
The Republican party Of Sedgwick, In
usual form and In accordance with the
images Of the party nominated. without
question, one Of the best county tickets
ever nominated in the state, every man. be-
ing a competent and tried man, and every
nan exceptionally popular and politically
sound and clean; but because Of blunder
Of others and with which they had no con-
nection and for which they were In no
way responsible, blunder which In no
way hinges for redress upon the election
this fall or In any manner upon their can
didscy, great cry was raised by the dem
scrats, q cry which simulated howl, that
Republicans should abandon their party
and abandon their principles and vote for
the duffer ticket Of mossbacks Set up by
the democrats, Otherwise the county would
70 to the dogs. Tsllow- blinkers
must be substituted for the H.
luminary of the universe became.
forsooth. The executive council Of the stsle
happened at this particular juncture to be
supplied with angle worms instead Of a
yertebrs as back bones. So brazenly per
sistent were the Democratic leaders and pa
pers for time In this bugaboo cry that a
few weakened Republicans desired the
EAGLE to come out and expose Its shallow
iptlnceriiy; as If the monkey which had
elm bed TO the top of the pole could be
rendered more conspicuous by pointing
him out In detail. The EAGLE had had
too long ard too favorable en- experience
with the Republicans Of Sedgw!ck county
to insult their intelligence by either ques.
Honipg their fealty TO their party and to
rs principles or to even SO far question
their intelligence as TO show up so thin a
racket a. has been INDUCED In by the Dem
scratic leaders and their papers In this
county this fall.
There is but one point which We desire
% call attention. That point not only en-
braces the animus of the howl but because 1t
% sccords with The entire history Of party
which is noted principally for two great {
national blupders, notification and seces- 1
hon. 1t is complete epitome Of the entire q
history Of their party. We allude to their {
pretended protest against the third plank I
h the sedgwich county Republican plat e
form, which resds: II
"The Reput lican Farty Of Sedg~ics county
= a party OF Law a. order, ard while en-
eoursgmg within its rank TIE largest liberty r
Il rnou, bit ard speech on all Questions Of leg
kletive policy, il believes IN and will uphold
he ehf,rc ment Of all laws constitutionally q
nacted.n
IF there Is Republican living In Sedg-
wick county or on the earth who does not